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November 2016

November 23, 2016

Introducing: “Side Hustles for Pastors”

In my experience young pastors are a little too idealistic to entertain a side hustle...

November 15, 2016

Fish Stories: Is Fiction Just a Well-told Lie?

One of my favorite films--definitely in the top 5--is Tim Burton's, Big Fish. The story...

November 12, 2016

Jack, the Giant, and the Indigestible Bean

A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...

November 08, 2016

Being a Pastor on Election Day

If you follow this blog you can probably guess my politics. But you might be...

November 03, 2016

Children and Household Religion

Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...

November 01, 2016

Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle: What Will Become of Our Work?

Leaf by Niggle is a personal favorite. It's right up there with Smith of Wootton...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Put Your Kids to Work, Go Ahead, They’ll Thank You for It

Some people apparently believe that children are better off when they're useless. I got a...

October 25, 2016

Is Horror Fiction Immoral?

Last evening I was in attendance for a reading at a local library by contributors...

October 20, 2016

What ARE Children For?

I continue my reflections on the New Testament household codes today with a subject you...

October 18, 2016

Story-telling and Sovereignty

When my daughter was a little girl she didn't like stories with bad-guys in them....

October 14, 2016

Slavery and You: Why You’re Not as Free as You Think

Laws often trail practices, not the other way around. In most slave-keeping societies the law...

October 11, 2016

Was Jesus a Self-Promoter?

I've been working to reconcile myself to a reality I've been denying for years. What's...

October 06, 2016

New Testament Household Codes and the Problem of Slavery

Slavery is an ignominious fact of history. Historically it was also well-nigh universal. I know you've...

October 04, 2016

Christian Humility and the Self-Promotion Problem

A little over a decade ago, when I first began writing fiction, a few of...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

New Testament Household Codes: Embarrassing or Enlightening?

In my old church we never read the household codes. (The church I'm referring to...

September 27, 2016

Getting Published is Easy, Getting Read Is the Tough Thing

Karl Marx, among the absurd things he said (some things were pretty sound, but I'm...

September 22, 2016

Focus! (Some changes coming to this blog.)

Art makes its demands. Anyone who believes it is merely a matter of self-expression hasn't...

September 19, 2016

What Inside Out Managed to Leave Out

Pixar seems to have found that little spot behind the collective ear that we like...

September 14, 2016

I Like It When a Children’s Book Scares Me a Little

I'm nearly done writing the text for a children's picture book. It's called Daisy (at...

September 12, 2016

The Economics of Love

The words love and economy rarely find their ways into the same sentence. Economics has been called the dismal science but...

September 09, 2016

How to Tell a Story Like an Inkling

Chapter One: Kick the Allegory Habit (Editorial note: this puts my last four posts on...

September 06, 2016

And Now, in Conclusion: How to End a Story

"Have the courage to conclude." (Don't recall where I read that, but it's good advice.)...

September 02, 2016

Tales of the Sublime: They aren’t Safe, but They Can be Good

G. K. Chesterton once spoke of nature as our "little sister" and C. S. Lewis...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

How to Tell a Meaningful Story without Preaching It

The movie mogul Sam Goldwyn once said, "If you want to send a message, use...

August 29, 2016

How to Tell a Story: a Primer for Preachers

(Note: this is the first in a series of forays on the subject of preachers...

August 26, 2016

If you like folk music, you may like this: ChurchFolk!

In my last post I spoke about taking one of my sons to college. Well,...

August 22, 2016

Taking a Son to College

I suspect that I'll cry. The last time I cried was when we dropped his...

August 01, 2016

Wiley, Where Are You?

It is impossible to know how many regular readers there are for this blog. But...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

So You Want to Be Famous?

I have a book on the shelf that I really should to return to the...

July 14, 2016

Darwin and the Gnostics

Seemingly incompatible doctrines can actually reinforce each other. I'm thinking of Darwinism and gnosticism here....

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